It owns. Hard.
Just got back from seeing it in IMAX, had a pair of tickets, along with a couple other friends. They gave them out while we waited for a movie at Fantasia last weekend.
Go see it. I can’t emphasise enough. It’s darker than the first one, but DAMN, someone rez Heath Ledger or something. He BLEW Jack Nicholson out of the role. It was that amazing.
Seriously, stop reading this. Go get a ticket.
Shoo.
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Heath Ledger as Joker = Best Evar!
Wait? Better than Mark Hamill? Now I must out to see this (or wait around for about a year and a half for FX to start spamming it).
Still good to know.
So I’ve heard! A friend of mine that works in a movie theatre saw it on Tuesday. Apparently her boss got all the employees into an early showing. She basically said it was the best thing since chocolate.
It’s not out yet here and every second kills me a little harder.
Only 45,000 more tiny painful deaths to go…
Its already out? Or it was just released in IMAX ahead of time?
Nah we had tickets for a special preview showing… we saw the movie two days before the official release ^^
Insanely awesome.
Insanely fucking awesome. I can’t believe how well they got the characters of Joker and Dent/Two Face so fucking perfect. I honestly felt that they were those roles. It was incredible. It was wait a four hour wait in line and a half hour wait as they fixed the reel and it was worth much, much more. Go. See. It. I cannot stress this enough.
I concur. But yeah, the roles of Joker and Dent were portrayed really well. Can’t wait for the next movie 
Just got back.
Fan-fucking-tastic. Right now I can’t believe I doubted Ledger would pull the Joker off, but he did, and then some.
It’s just a shame they brought in Two-Face as a surprise villain only to kill him at the end, so much potential for him to have his own movie focus. The Joker gets to live, but without Heath Ledger for a renewed performance I doubt we’ll see him again in the current Batman movie canon.
Oh yeah, and the make-up on Two-Face was beyond awesome. Makes me even sadder he won’t return for another movie. Tommy Lee Jones, eat your heart out.
It was SO awesome. I did not look at my watch the entire time, and that NEVER happens!
Heath Ledger was amazing, pure and simple. I thought the makeup for both the Joker and Harvey Dent was fantastic - perfectly fitted for one, and technically great for the other. How did they DO that for Dent, anyway?
I also thought Maggie Gyllenhall was much better as Rachel Dawes than Katie Holmes, and it goes without saying (but I’ll do it anyway) that I loved the other main characters. I wasn’t expecting anything less, but I was really there to see what Heath Ledger had done. Again, amazing.
Meh. It was alright, better than Iron man, but like Iron Man, it was way overhyped. I’m just about burned out on superhero movies. Most of the acting in this one was way too subdued(with the exception of the Joker). - I felt like I could barely hear what the characters were saying, which was bad, considering how convuluted the plot was. Plus, why did they feel compelled to give Batman the voice of a bullfrog?
[SPOILER]Also, it made no sense whatsoever to have Two-face spare the Joker’s life. He decides to kill Commissioner Gordon’s son, but he can’t kill the Joker, because the Joker is a ‘mad dog’? Major plot hole.
The best part of it was Two-Face, though. I really felt bad for Harvey, and Two-Face was way scarier and more compelling than the Joker, IMO. Too bad they had too many plots going on by the time he was introduced.
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[SPOILER]The Joker was spared because the coin said to spare him. I’m sure there was a similar event, albeit not shown, with Two Face flipping a coin over whether he should kill the one Gordon loves the most.
Also, I doubt Two Face is dead. Especially now with Ledger actually being gone. There’s a lot of potential with Eckhart to play the character again.[/SPOILER]
I liked it oeverall though. The ending seemed a little blunt force, but I liked it. Though, The Watchmen trailer was amazing.
[SPOILER]Yeah. Still, he was so pissed off and totally insane, and since it was Rachel’s death that made him that way, you’d think he’d make an exception for the Joker. Just didn’t ring right for me.
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[SPOILER]I would say the totally insane aspect is why he didn’t do it, why he relied on random chance. It would be the markings of a sane man to go ahead and kill The Joker at that moment. A very angry man, rightfully so, but a sane man. However, for him to hate The Joker to his very core, to blame him in large part for Rachel’s death, to then still show the ruthlessness necessary to exact revenge on other people, but to not pull the trigger when literally given the perfect opportunity, that’s insane.
I think of this Two Face being inspired in part by Batman: The Killing Joke (or at least parallels can be drawn. In it, The Joker makes the point that all it takes for one man to go insane is to experience one really bad day. Dent definitely had one really bad day.[/SPOILER]
That was actually one of my favorite things about the movie, the fact that they got aspects of the Joker and Two Face’s philosophies (well, you know what I mean) into the movie, the way the characters actually would strike me as being. It was cool.
That does make sense. I just really wanted to see the Joker die
The reason the Joker can’t die is the same reason he can’t kill Batman, at least, that’s what I’ve always considered it to be. Like Joker said…Batman completes him. But Joker also has a place as a part of Batman. Turn and turn about. That’s why I love the character so much.
The movie wasn’t that great.
It was FUCKING AWESOME.
Oh my GOD. Heath’s portrayal of the Joker really makes you believe how scary and batshit insane the character is. And it wasn’t just his performance, the other actors, the general atmosphere, pacing and story were spot on. Just when you thought the movie would lag, something unexpected would pop up outta freakin’ nowhere and keep things moving. So yes, this thing totally blew me away. I wanna go see it again! :3
[QUOTE=The 984;612453]Also, I doubt Two Face is dead. Especially now with Ledger actually being gone. There’s a lot of potential with Eckhart to play the character again.
I think you’re right, they could bring him back. If only because they made a point earlier in the movie to come out and say ‘a fall from this height won’t kill a man’, when Batman was threatening that thug. It broke his legs, but didn’t kill him. The fall was about the same for Dent, and since I don’t think either Batman or Gorden actually come out and SAY he’s dead, it’s possible they were leaving the door open for his return in the future.
EDIT: This movie even left The Bum speechless. (Some light spoilers, perhaps)